BTX Lives!

Last December, I wrote up my thoughts on . One of the trends I suggested hadn’t taken root was the BTX form factor. Once trumpeted as the successor to ATX, most motherboard companies scaled back support for the new form factor.

Intel, who developed BTX, soldiered on, and the format gained some ground with large OEMs. Gateway ships a number of BTX-based systems currently, and Dell is starting to dip its toes in the BTX waters. We’ve seen HP systems using BTX, too.

But what about building your own system using a BTX case and motherboard? We wrote an earlier article on , but that turned out to be a bit premature. The good news is that after 18 months, it’s now possible to actually build your own BTX system. The bad news: Your choices are still pretty limited.

Let’s take a look at the ecosystem for BTX first, and then walk through a sample build using real products. Continued…

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